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Thank you Google for tracking our trip!

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 I took a note book with on our trip, but with the pace of the tour I did not get to write anything down, thinking I'll go onto Google maps and track our trip when I get home.  I tried to take photos of all the places we stopped at and stayed over. Well I shouldn't have bothered I obviously have some thing switched on, on my phone and it tracked everything and everywhere we went.    I got an email from Google at the end of September "here's your new Timeline update" and it gave me a map and details of what we did everyday.  So thank you Google, now I can blog about our trip. 

Day 1: Dublin - Marrakech

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 I had organized the trip at the beginning of 2022 and done my normal travel prep, googled trips to Morocco.   Decided that as it was unfamiliar territory I would book a tour, but a small group tour and see quite a bit of Morocco.    I can't remember now how many tours I contacted but the one guide just sounded so accommodating and only wanted €100 deposit for a trip that we cost us €2,100 in total for 10 days.  We emailed each other several times and eventually he contacted me on WhatsApp.  He was so polite with all my stupid questions and really did entertain all my thousands of questions.  The plan was that he would pick us up on Sunday evening when I flight arrived and take us to our Riad.  Our flight on Ryan air was only getting in at 8:00 p.m. and as it turned out it was delayed (as Ryan air always is) and we only landed and got our baggage by 10:00 p.m. but I let "Hamid" know on whatsApp as I did not want him to wait for hours at the airport.  The flight as always